Nurse Martha Tilton enters the doctor's office, where men with broken bones and wheelchair bound are sitting. She sings the title song, and they stand up and begin some energetic dancing in this silly soundie.
Soundies were short films, usually about three minutes in length, meant to be played on a sort of video jukebox called the Mills Panaram. The devices were found in bars, diners, nightclubs, the sort of places one might find a regular jukebox. For a dime you got a song with a a visual component like this. From 1940 to 1946, Mills and other companies produced more than two thousand of these shorts.
A lot of well known people got their start in the soundies, like Doris Day and Dorothy Dandridge. Miss Tilton also had a bit of a career, appearing in more than twenty movies, sometimes as a musical specialty, but also as an actress.
Soundies were short films, usually about three minutes in length, meant to be played on a sort of video jukebox called the Mills Panaram. The devices were found in bars, diners, nightclubs, the sort of places one might find a regular jukebox. For a dime you got a song with a a visual component like this. From 1940 to 1946, Mills and other companies produced more than two thousand of these shorts.
A lot of well known people got their start in the soundies, like Doris Day and Dorothy Dandridge. Miss Tilton also had a bit of a career, appearing in more than twenty movies, sometimes as a musical specialty, but also as an actress.